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> I've run into too many devs who salivated over the idea of embedding cryptominers in game clones to believe it isn't done on a semi-regular basis. Reminds me
by musingsole 5y ago
> I've run into too many devs who salivated over the idea of embedding cryptominers in game clones to believe it isn't done on a semi-regular basis.
Reminds me of early days in my career when my mentor and I were discussing user issues with a library we maintained. I didn't realize it at the time, but he was messing with me by suggesting we add some hooks to report usage statistics back to us and use that to improve things.
I was young and naive so excuse that I got really excited at the genius of the idea. If not for his wry smile, I would have happily run off and implemented just that.
- salawat 5y agoIt's telling that you got grayed out that fast for what I don't think is an uncommon programming life lesson to try to instill. What people run on their machine is no one's business but theirs. Undisclosed/non-consensual information leakage is unethical, and immoral. Period. I'm also not entirely on the status-quo of "accept the EULA or F off" form of disclosure or consent facilitation either. If someone reaches out, by all means, get the detailed info you need, but don't pull it. Let them push it. Other folk's machines don't become yours by virtue of executing some version of a computation you wrote once, no matter how badly Microsoft, IBM, Intel, and the FAANG's wish that were the case. Note, this would be considered anti-thetical to most corporate or for-profit interests in the computing space; so don't be surprised if you get blowback or static for it.